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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A Guidant Corp. executive acknowledged the medical device maker made changes to one of its defibrillators in 2002 and later incorrectly told federal regulators it had no effect on the product's performance.
Still, Fred McCoy, head of Guidant's cardiac rhythm management division, said in a deposition released this week that he didn't think the faulty defibrillator was responsible for patients' deaths.
"This particular failure mechanism does not have the capacity to kill a patient," McCoy said during a January deposition. "It may be unable, as a device, to save the patient."
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